Mapping the Jersey City parking zones II

24 September 2015

I finally had the chance to finish up the Jersey City parking zone mapping project from a couple of weeks ago. The goal was to take a PDF of valid addresses for each zone and visualize it on a map. The result can be found at https://dangoldin.github.io/jersey-city-open-data/ and includes the zones that had enough geocodeable addresses to generate a valid polygon.

As expected, most of the work was going from the PDF to a set of valid geocoded addresses. The biggest challenge was extracting the text from the PDF and transforming them into addresses that could be accurately geocoded. Once I had that it was simply modifying the Google Maps polygon example to generate a list of polygon and finding a library to overlay the zone labels.

The two things I want to change are to modify the visualization to also include a street level visualization rather than relying on a polygon since it’ll make the information bit more useful as well as incorporate the street cleaning hours. If anyone has that data I’d love to get it.